Ron Ziegler

Ron Ziegler (12 May 1939-10 February 2003) was the White House Press Secretary from 20 January 1969 to 9 August 1974, succeeding George Christian and preceding Jerald terHorst.

Biography
Ron Ziegler was born in Covington, Kentucky on 12 May 1939, and he graduated from the University of Southern California in 1961 with a degree in government and politics. He met Dwight Chapin, Donald Segretti, and Herbert Porter while studying there, and he worked as a press aide on Richard Nixon's 1962 gubernatorial campaign in California. In 1969, he became the youngest White House Press Secretary in history at the young age of 29, and he dismissed the Watergate scandal as a "third-rate burglary attempt". He urged Nixon not to resign, and he appeared before the US Congress 33 times. After Watergate, he remained close to Nixon, and he worked as a businessman.